signed first edition
1967 · Cleveland
by KELLY, Robert
Cleveland: The Asphodel Bookshop, 1967. First Edition. One of 500 copies. Quarto; 8.5" x 14" mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle stapled and glued into thick dark brown paper covers, with printed title label mounted to front cover; [4],5-76pp. Light wear and subtle toning to text edges, front cover pulling away around the upper staple, with some of the usual offsetting from adhesive to the title label; Very Good+. Inscribed by the author on the preliminary leaf, with a brief poem: "For Joel / little mountains / rain coming / wet trees / Love, Kelly." A long poem inspired by Louis Zukofsky's A, published by Jim Lowell's Asphodel Bookshop. 83758. (Inventory (truncated)